Thinking Machines, which is less than a year old, is raising money at a $50 billion valuation.
Thinking Machines 2nd Website -> Thinking Machines Lab | Building the Future of Collaborative AI
The valuation might even rise to $55 to $60 Billion.
Reference: Murati’s Thinking Machines in Funding Talks at $50 Billion Value – Bloomberg
Who is Mira Murati?
Mira Murati is the Ex Chief Technological Officer of OpenAI.
She is co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab.
What is thinking Machines Lab?
Thinking Machines Lab is an AI startup founded by Mira Murati, Ex CTO of Open AI.
Ms. Murati had left OpenAI in September 2024 and formally announced Thinking Machines Lab in Feb 2025. The Thinking Machines Lab website says it was founded in Feb 2025.
Murati is CEO, Barret Zoph is CTO and John Schulman is Chief Scientist. Zoph left OpenAI in September. Schulman departed OpenAI in August for Anthropic, and then left Anthropic for Thinking Machines Lab.
This is interesting -> One of the key gaps that Murati wants to address is the gulf between the capabilities of AI systems and humans’ ability to understand and use them.
Why is Thinking Machines being valued at $50 billion roughly a year after launching as a company?
Well, firstly, we do have an AI Bubble.
Secondly, the Top 100 to Top 300 people in AI are valued very highly, and their startups are always valued very highly.
As Thinking Machines Lab has Murati (former CTO of Open AI) and other OpenAI people, it has many of the Top 100/Top 300 AI minds. They also have (according to their website) a world-class team of 30 renowned researchers and engineers from Open AI, Google, DeepMind, Meta, and Mistral.
Create one of the best groups of Top 100/Top 300 people in AI and you’re guaranteed to see very high valuations.
Thinking Machines Launch & Funding Timeline
Thinking Machines rough timeline
- Founded Feb 2025
- Formally announced Feb 2025, with Mira Murati as CEO, Barret Zoph as CTO, and John Schulman as Chief Scientist
- Raised $2 Billion at a $10 Billion valuation in July 2025. Interesting that even their official website says ‘reported $10 billion valuation’ and does not disclose the actual valuation
- Raising Unknown Amount at a $50 Billion valuation in November 2025
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